Well seeing as I'm bored & off work on the sick due to my knee ligaments being torn, I thought it was the ideal time to order a carbon mods
skinning kit to replace the poorly colour coded tin top grille, something to do in front of 'this morning' you know (Holly Willoughby -
drool)
Part all cleaned off:
The kit (£50 delivered):
Base coat on:
Carbon on and 1 layer of top resin to 'wet it out':
2 more resin coats, lots of shaping the rear, 6 grades of wed and dry and 2 coats of laquer later:
Tomorrow it'll be ready to polish and fit. Halfway through I wish I'd never started but it looks cool now. I don't think I could have
picked a more difficult part to have my 1st attempt on, way to many compound curves!
Anyway, what do we think?
what badge is going there?
great finish, top work!
ummmmmmmm.......................
Skoda
To go on my Fabia vRS!!!!!
looks really good
ditch
That is a whole lot of snaziness!
£50? I want to carbon something. . . . . what can I carbon!?!
Well done, that will set the Skoda customising world on fire!
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£50? I want to carbon something. . . . . what can I carbon!?!
very nice,
not sure about the skoda badge through
stuart
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Originally posted by Stuart_B
very nice,
not sure about the skoda badge through
stuart
with the carbon matting and all that laquer....
will it fit!!!!
Yeah it does! it's added just over 1mm wall thickness to it, the matting is extremely thin but the resin is where you have the chance to get it
wrong.
It needed carefull fettling with a tri square file to trim back the top resin from key areas, then it fitted ok 
I made sure of that before I bothered clear coating it
That needs a picture of Holly Willoughby in there.
Not sure about it. Whats the point? Just Bling for the sake of it.
Carbon is used for losing weight on a car not adding to it!
Your work is impressive, but if it was a new part rather than a cover up, Id like it more
Looks nice, have you got any left over? If so anything else to be done?
Looks ace, but, what price and how much time to do a bonnet
does your other half know you did that on the kitchen table ????
i would die if i did that!
Yeah the wife was ok about it, she didn't mind it on the living room floor while the laquer dried either!
I think it's about £100 - £150 to do a tin top bonnet
As for the purpose, well it had a chrome grille which looked bunk, then it got colour coded which proceeded to suffer very badly from stonechips, so I
figured I'd skin it to make it look cool. Everyone knows carbon is ideal for weight, but also everyone knows it looks cool as f**k too!
Otherwise nobody would be bothering with di-noc etc. Moulding a new one would have cost another £50 or so, to buy a mould making kit, but for this
purpose, it's unneccesary. It hardly matters when theres all that diesel lump up front and lardy german chassis
I've got offcuts left over, not much really so to do anything good I'd need a bit more. But I do have some resin/top resin left and I will
be playing a lot more with this in the future, it's so cool.
Steve Hignett posted pics of a Beemer roof he did a while back, now that was ballsy let me tell you!!!!!
[Edited on 11/7/10 by Stott]
My burning question has always been, do you need to have one continuous piece to look decent? Or can you bodge together the offcuts? I've got quite a bit of little bits too.
I would say it would be better with contiuous piece but I did read on their site somewhere that on certain objects, cutting and patching is inevitable, so I think it's possible. So long as you line the weave up so the light all catches it roughly the same way then it may look good.
You should use your offcuts on house hold appliances, surprise your Mrs with a Carbon Fibre Iron.......
Mine doesn't like the look of carbon fibre. Yes, I know it is completely weird.
You could make a nice Iphone carbon fibre case with the left over from the midle of the mask
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Originally posted by nitram38
Not sure about it. Whats the point? Just Bling for the sake of it.
Carbon is used for losing weight on a car not adding to it!
Your work is impressive, but if it was a new part rather than a cover up, Id like it more
We may ask who in his right mind would make a car when you can go buy a nice one, a more reliable, practical one, well performing to boot, and save yourself a lot of trouble. It's a bit like asking an artist why he makes things.
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Originally posted by l0rd
You could make a nice Iphone carbon fibre case with the left over from the midle of the mask
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Originally posted by RK
We may ask who in his right mind would make a car when you can go buy a nice one, a more reliable, practical one, well performing to boot, and save yourself a lot of trouble. It's a bit like asking an artist why he makes things.
It's down to personal opinion, it isn't wrong or right, but, does it LOOK better? Hell! yes! In my opinion and the item in question
doesn't really have a function in the first place.
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Originally posted by Peteff
That needs a picture of Holly Willoughby in there.
...... and who would say no to a ride with Holly
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Originally posted by Alan B
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Originally posted by nitram38
Not sure about it. Whats the point? Just Bling for the sake of it.
Carbon is used for losing weight on a car not adding to it!
Your work is impressive, but if it was a new part rather than a cover up, Id like it more
Going to be controversial and agree with Martin..looks good and is well excuted...but why?
good effort.
now you can do the wing mirrors and tyre valve caps.
think it looks cool well done